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"Do you wantlike he was ready to go, not just to help her out, but because he loved taking nature photos The sideways glance he cast Toer, too

Why couldn’t To to say?

"I’ll have to look at the photos, but I ht already have what I need for the article Thanks for the offer, though"

The conversation then shifted to other topics, so babies and about Darien and Lelandi’s toddlers, and then everyone looked at Carol and Ryan to see if they were in the fa for a while I’m not ready to raise babies who can turn into wolves yet"

To fairly ith shifting only when she wanted to and not at aard times He could understand her reluctance to have children until she had the ability fully under control Wolf-shifter mothers usually had multiple births--like a she-wolf and her litter The babies all shifted when their mother did until they became aware of their own ability But if a , that could be a disaster for both her and her pups

Tolanced at Elizabeth He shouldn’t have, but he couldn’t help wondering what it would be like to raise some pups of his own Surely his kids wouldn’t be as rown quiet and sat stirring her spaghetti with a fork He reached over and patted her leg and smiled at her She sh she had napped all afternoon He suspected she hadn’t slept all that soundly

Pack politics were discussed, despite Carol and Ryan being fro there, too

Jake and Alicia begged off after dinner to return ho they were two tired, old wolves, which Tom knew meant that they were off to bed but not to sleep Jake took Elizabeth’s camera with him to try to repair

Carol said to Elizabeth, "I’d stay overnight with you, but we have a proble up in the pack that Ryan and I need to deal with Darien can call Nurse Matthew or Nurse Grey to stay the night if he thinks you need someone to watch over you"

"No, I’ood night’s sleep, I should be great by "

Elizabeth smiled at him "I never knew ski patrollers hed

"If nobody minds, I’m off to bed Thanks so much for dinner It was delicious," Elizabeth said "But I feel wiped out"

Everybody said good night except To?"

"Like?"

"An ice pack on your back again?"

She suest room, and lay down on her storeeable, Toet her a fresh ice pack On the return trip, he raced up the stairs sounding like a pack of wolves and entered the rooht clue us in about this, just let me know You can wake me anytime" He placed the pack on her back